Blade-holder.



R.A MARX.

BLADE HOLDER.

APPLIUATION FILED 13110.18, 1912.

@ pQQQQ'yQ Patented Mar. 31, 1914,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.RICYARD MARX, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE TEMPERITE COMPANY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. A

CORPORATION 0F PENNSYLVANIA.

BLADE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3 1, 1914.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD MARX, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Blade-Holders, of which the `following is a specification.

One objectlof my invention is'to provide a novel form of relatively inexpensive box or package for razor blades whose construction shall be such as to permit of the convenient insertion and removal of said blades Without danger of injury to the user.

Another object of my invention is to provide a case for holding razor blades with novel means for ejecting or feeding out blades from the same, the arrangement of parts being such that after each blade may be partially ejected by the proper operation of the box lid, yit may be conveniently grasped by the fingers and removed.

I further desire to provide a blade container with a novel construction of sliding cover whereby the blades in the box may be successively engaged and ejected; the invention also contemplating the provision of a novel form of spring for pressing the blades toward the cover.

It is also desired that the box or holder shall be so constructed as to hold the blades in such manner that their cutting edges cannot come into contact with any part of said box, while owing to the peculiar shape of the latter the blades can be put into it in but a single position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a box or holder with means whereby the blades therein may be forcibly separated and independently removed even though they should be held together by grease or some rust prevention compound.

These o jects and other advantageous .ends I secure asffhereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1, is a perspective view of a bladeholding box constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lid or cover of the box; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the preferred form of spring for pressing the blades Fig. 4 is a perspective View of one form of razor blade for which the box illustrated is particularly designed; Figs: 5, 6 and 7, are perspective views illustrating respectively toward the cover;

the box with the cover in its closed positionY and also in two other positions assumed under conditions of use; Fig. 8, is a plan o'fthe box with the cover in its closed pos 1t1on; Figs. 9, 10 and 11, are transverse vertical sections on an enlarged scale illustrating the construction and use of my invention; and Figs. 12 and 13, are longitudinal vertical sections further illustrating the invention.

In the above drawings I have illustrated a container or box particularly designed to receive safety-razor blades of rhomboidal o-utline as shown in Fig. t at X,feach of said blades having at the extremities at its back edge two projections or lugs w, and at the middle of said back edge an elongated pro-- jection therefore construct the blade container 1 so that, as shown in Fig. 8, it is substantially rhomboidal in plan and has laterally` extending portions 2 at opposite ends of one side in order to accommodate and closely fit theprojections of the blade. Obviously the box may be made of any depth desired, depending upon the number of blades which it is required to hold and these latter are at all times pressed toward4 the top or cover of the box hereafter described, by a special form of spring 3 of the construction shown in Fig. 3. Said spring preferably consists of a iat plate or body- 4 fitting into and having substantially the same outline as, the interior of the box and provided with two upwardly projecting tongues 5 preferably cut from or formed integral withsaid body 4.

It is understood that the tongues are of resilient material and being cut from the body may be pressed down until they reenter the recesses from which they were originally cut so as to lie flush with the body, or they may, when released, project'so far upward as to extend immediately 'adjacent to or even engage the inner side of the cover. Obviously it is immaterial whether the body lies on the bottom of the box with the tongues projecting upwardly or whether said tongues engage the box bottom and act to force the lood)T toward the cover.vv SaidA cover is illustrated at 6 in Fig. 2 and consists of a rhomboidal plate having substantially the width of the box 1 though of a slightly greater length than the same. For slidably retaining this cover on the box, the

l latter is Said cover is along its opposite transverse top edges, and these are nicked or pressed inwardly as indicated at 8 in Fig. 8 to provide internal stops designed to enter elongated slots 9 in the opposite transverse edges of the cover 6;

the arrangement and proportioning beingv such that the said cover may be moved from a position immediately over the top of the box to a position in which about one-third of its width projects beyond one longitudinal edge of the box, as shown in Fig. 6. preferably provided with stii ening ribs 10 which also serve as linger holds and at the ends of its front edge has two downwardly formed projections or lugs 1l l so placed as to he capable of falling back of the lugs :n of the razor blades.

Under conditions of use a number of safety razorblades is placed in the box uponv desired to remove one of them, the box is preferably allowed to rest upon-the first and second lingers of the hand whilethe lid or cover 4 is moved by the thumb of the user,I back into the position shown in Fig.- 6. It,

will be noted that vthe guideways 7 Nare so proportioned'that when the box is' closed as shown in Fi 5, the body of the cover is spaced away j om the plane of the topedges ofthe box y a distance substantially equal to the thickness .of a single razor blade. Consequently when the cover is moved back mto the position shown in Fig. 6, the spring tongues 5 soact on the uppermost razor blade that its body is held 1n contact with the under side of said cover, while they rojectionslI of the latter drop behind the lhgs :v of said blade, whose .front or blunt now lies wholly above the edges of the box. If now the cover 6 be moved forwardly until it lies immediately over the box, as shown in Fig. 7, the top razor blade is moved so that itsblunt edge projects beyond the side of the box for a suicient distance to enable it to be convenie'ntly grasped and removed.

.By another rearward sliding of the cover 6 1n to the position shown in Flg. 6, the projectlons 11 dro behind the -lugs a: of another blade, w ich thereafter may be removed as previously described.l

With -th edge plane of the top dan er of injury to the userv from the edges of t e razor blades is efectually prevented,'

provided with two guideways 7 i y entering first one endv the blades X are forcede box constructed. as noted, all

pletely protected until they have been removedfrom the box or container.l At the same time it is not possible for the cutting edges of the blades to be injured by contact 4 with any part of the box since their lugs a:

are normally held in correspondingly formed extensions at one side of the box and are only tivelyengagied by the projections 11 o the cover. y

It is of course to be understood that the box or container, together with its cover and spring plate, are by no means `necessarily rhomboidal in outline, since they may be made rectangular or in essential modification of though one important advantage of the box made as shown, lies in the removed when said lugs are osiother forms without. n my invention, al-

act-that the v blades can be placed in itin but vone posil tion and consequently all have the same side uppermost as required whenl the sides yof the cutting edge are differently ound.

Moreover, while for thegparticular orm'of razor blade shown in Figt 4 I nprovlde the projections 11 of the cover engage the lugs w at the of said blade, it is to be understood that without departing from my inventionhthe projections or engaging portion or portlons of the slidable cover may .be located at any suitable point thereon 'as may be necessary to permit them to properly engage a pro- ]ectionor projections formed anywhere on y a razorA blade or'to enter any recess or re-v so that they f"" ends of one edge sus` cesses' thereof, for the purpose of imparting l to such blade a movement as will draw it from the interior of a box or package, mto a position to allow of its being conveniently grasped and removed.

1.' The combination'v in a blade holder, of a container; a cover movably guided thereon and spaced away'from the top edge thereof by a distance substantially equal to the thickness of a. blade; means for presslng blades in the container and means on the cover for engaging portoward said cover;

tions of the ends of the topmost blade in the l holder to remove j the same whensaid cover is reciprocated.

2. The combination in a blade/holder of a container having two of its opposite top edges extended and bent to form guide ways having a U-shaped section, each guide way being pressed in to provide a stop; a cover slidable in the tions cut away to receive said stops while permitting movement of said cover; and means for forcing blades in the container toward the cover. k l

3. The combination of a box Ahaving a body portion and an extension thereto; withv guide ways and having pori y an extension thereto; with a cover movably guided on the box and having a projection placed to engage a portion of a razor .blade extending into said box gxtension, when the cover is moved on the 4;. The combination of a blade holder consisting of a box having a body portion and a series of blades each havin a body and an extension, the extension o each blade entering the extension from the box body and being heldA thereby in a position inwhich the cutting edge of the blade is retained out of engagement with the wall ofthe box.y

5.. The combination of a blade holder consisting of a box having a body portion and a plurality of oppositely placed extensions thereto; with a series of blades each having a body and a plurality of extensions, the extensions of each blade entering the extensions from the body of the box, and the blade box cover between the position in which itcloses being held thereby in a posit on in which the cutting edge thereof is retained out of engagement with the wall of the box.

.6. The combinationin a blade holder of a box having lateral op ositely placed extensions; a cover slidab y mounted on the means for limiting movement of the Vbox body Y tensions of the bla the box and the position in which one of its ed es is spaced away from the front edge o the box, to provide an opening; with I projections on said edge of the cover extending downwardly in position to enga e projections from the ends of a razor bla e lying within said o posite extensions of the box.

7. The com ination of sisting of a boxhaving a body portion and a plurality of oppositely placed extensions thereto; a series ofv blades each vhaving a body and a plurality fof extensions respectively lying within the extensions of the so as to hold the cutting edges of the blades out of engagement with the adjacent portion of the box; and a. cover movably mounted on the box having projece laced to engage the exes as .said coverls moved,

0' successively feed said blades from the tions respectively In testimony whereof, I have ,signed my name to this s eciiication, in the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

RICHARD MARX.

I Witnesses j WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, WM. A. Bann.

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